Spinning-ring holder.



No. 678,930. Patented. July 23, l90l. J. murmur.

SPINNING RING HOLDER.

(Application filed. Apt-23, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT @EETQE.

JOHN H. BENNETT, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

SPINNING-RING HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent N0. 678,930, dated July 23, 1901.

Application filed April 23, 1900. Serial No. 13,839. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN H. BENNETT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Worcester, in the county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spinning-Ring Holders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same, in which- Figure 1 represents a top view of my improved spinning-ring holder with a doubleflanged spinning-ring placed in position thereon. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on line 3 3, Fig. 1. Fig. at is a sectional view on line at 4, Fig. l; and Fig. 5 represents a top view of a portion of the ring-holder with the spinning-ring removed and with the location of the outer edge of the spinning-ring flange indicated by a broken line concentric with the ring-holder.

Similar reference-letters refer to similar parts in the difierent views.

The spinning-ring holder forming the subject of my present invention is designed to be attached to a rail of a spinning-frame and to hold thereon a duplex spinning-ring or one provided with two circular races united by a tubular neck.

The object of my invention is to provide a holder for spinning-rings having means intogral with the holder for maintaining the ring in proper position and holding it againstlateral movement and retain it in close contact with the holder and concentric therewith; and it consists in the novel features of construction, as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the annexed claims.

Referring to the drawings, A denotes one of my improved spinning-ring holders, consisting of a flat annulus preferably provided with notches or slots A -to receive attachingscrews by which it may be secured to the supporting-rail of the spinning-frame. In a circle concentric with the ring-holder I stamp, by means of suitable dies, three projecting lips B, which are raised above the upper surface of the holder, with their free edges B adapted to slightly overlap the outer edge of the flange O of a spinning-ring C.

The lip B, when struck up from the sheet metal forming the ring-holder, is pressed by suitable dies into a slightly-curved shape, so its overlapping edge will exert a downward pressure upon the edge of the flange O and retain it by the elasticity of the lip in close contact with the upper surface of the ringholder. The lips B are preferably of equal length and have equal spaces between them, so as to bear at three equidistant points upon the flange of the spinning-ring. hen the flange of the spinning-ring is to be inserted beneath the free edges B of the lips B, pressure is applied to the ring to crowd the edges of the lips B apart and allow the ring to be sprung into position. In order to allow the ring to be readily sprunginto position,the free edges B of the lips B but slightly overlap the flange O, and as the lips B are curved, so as to cause the pressure of their free edges to be exerted downwardly upon the edge of the flan ge,the spinning-ring would be capable of a slight movement beneath the edges of the lips B, and in order to prevent this movement and to cause the ring to be held absolutely concentric with its holder I stamp a pair of short lips D upon each side of the retaining-lips B by raising a portion of the sheet metal above its surface, as in the case of the lips B; but instead of making the edges of the short lips D to overlap the flange O of the spinning-ring I raise the lips D just far enough to bring their edges D into the plane of the flange C, and I make the edge D of the lips D to coincide with a circle E, Fig. 5, concentric with the ring-holder and of the same diameter, so that when the spinning-ring is placed in position the edge of the flange G Will abut against the free edges D of the short lips D and hold the ring from lateral movement. By providing the short lips D with their free edges abutting against the edge of the flange of the spinning-ring I am able to make the lips B longer and more elastic, with their pressure exerted wholly in a downward direction, thereby holding the spinning-ring more closely in contact with the holder and facilitating the introduction of the flange G beneath the lips.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. As an article of manufacture, the withindescribed spinning-ring holder consisting of an annular plate adapted to extend beneath and support the spinning-ring, and having means for attachment to the rail of a spinrung-frame, of a series of elastic yielding lugs integral and concentric with said plate, with their free edges adapted to overlap the flanged base of the spinning-ring, and a series of short unyielding lugs between said yielding lugs adapted to bear against the outer edge of the spinning-ring flange and hold it from lateralmovement, substantially as described.

2. A spinning-ring holder consisting of an annular plate A with its inner edge extend ing beneath the flanged base of a spinningring, a series of short lugs B overlapping the outer edge of the flanged base of the ring and capable of yielding outwardly to allow the ring to enter between them, and a pair of lugs D arranged at the ends of said yielding lugs, and bearing against the outer edges of JOHN H. BENNETT.

\Vitnesses:

RUFUs B. FOWLER, AVA T. MURPHY. 

